Xingqinggong Park () is a
city park in
Xi'an
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, the capital of
Shaanxi Province
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,
China
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. With an area of 743 acres, it is the largest park in Xi'an's city proper.
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General
Xingqinggong Park was built in 1958 on the former site of Xinqing Palace (see below), when Xi'an Jiaotong University was established directly in its south. The park's main entrance faces Xi'an Jiaotong University.
The park has 150 acres of Xingqing Lake and the Chenxiang Pavilion, which is built in the Tang Dynasty architecture.
Xingqing Palace
The Xingqing Palace was originally an old house, called Longqing Fang, where Li Longji
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (; 8 September 685 – 3 May 762), personal name Li Longji, was the seventh emperor of the Tang dynasty in China, reigning from 712 to 756 CE. His reign of 44 years was the longest during the Tang dynasty. In the early ...
lived with his five brothers when he was a prince. After becoming a palace
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, he changed its name.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Xingqing Palace was destroyed, and by the beginning of the Qing Dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...
, the site gradually became a farmland.
On May 31, 1957, the Xingqing Palace site was listed as a cultural relic protection unit of Shaanxi Province.
See also
* Xi'an Jiaotong University
References
External links
{{Commons category, Xingqinggong Park
Geography of Xi'an
Tourist attractions in Xi'an